Best-selling author Christopher Newman makes his electrifying hardcover debut with Dead End Game, a gritty novel of suspense and murder featuring NYPD detective Joe Dante of the Precinct series.Kansas City Royals star pitcher Willie Cintron is found dead from a heroin overdose on the day of the final game of the American League Championship Series. The rival New York Yankees aren't the only ones to benefit from this development, though, and suspicions mount when a popular New York sports columnist cries foul.While preliminary evidence points to suicide, Lieutenant Joe Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, aren't convinced. Their investigation leads them into a labyrinth of intrigue whose suspects include a sexy swimsuit model with a secret past, a dealer in exotic, high-performance sports cars, a seductive TV ad exec, and a ruthless young Chinese drug lord. All have profited from Willie's death. Worse, all are interconnected. Struggling to cut through this web of deceit is the magnetic figure of Joe Dante.Complex and wise in the twisted byways of human desire, Dead End Game is a four-star hardcover debut from one of the most compelling new voices in realistic police fiction. Read Less